- CNNVINA GUPTAThe frontrunner for the Democrats in the 2008 presidential election, Hillary Clinton, has been hit by a legal dispute in which one of her fundraisers is accused of trying to "ingratiate" himself with powerful friends at the expense of his company.

Having won over Uefa's president, Michel Platini, from his standing start as a former politician – not the most beloved profession of Fifa executive-committee members – Triesman attempted to ingratiate himself with the rest of the committee.